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1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cabinets of the curious: readers in the nineteenth century American archive and the search for a story-like life / Zoe Trodd -- Women's history, women's empowerment: Lydia Maria Child's Ladies Family Library Series / Susan Toth Lord -- Cinderella revisited: women writers and the stepfamily / Christine Poulson -- Hidden harlot: alternative ideals of womanhood in nineteenth century women's fiction / Susan Cruea -- Victorian women poets and the art of collaboration / Susan Soroka -- "That idyl of the June, that girls' gospel" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Browning's Aurora Leigh / Becky Wingard Lewis -- Cuban femininity and national unity in Louisa May Alcott's moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros and Anteros" / Nina Bannett -- Bad girls of the VAD: World War I fallen women in the forbidden zone / Jennifer Shaddock -- Modernism, maternity, and the radical women poet / Julia Lisella -- Riders of the new wave: the feminist science fiction of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree / Alayne Peterson -- Embodying the muse, opening pandora's box: Post-Modern counter narratives of female creativity and community / Jennifer E. Dunn -- Sacred frontiers: looking for fissures to construct an alternate feminist subjectivity in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Diya Abdo -- Who I be I grow up / here? : literary recuperations of Harlem's streets / Alison Perry -- Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm / Natalie Wilson. |
| Summary |
Taken together, the fourteen essays in this collection contribute to the discourse of social conditions for literary women. The essays examine relevant social, intellectual, and professional questions about the ways in which women writers contributed to conceptions of womanhood in nineteenth and twentieth century Anglophone literary culture. Contributors to this collection describe and examine several nineteenth and twentieth century women writers' responses to patriarchal assumptions ab ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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19th century |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Hammerman, Robin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture. Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2007 9781847183507 (DLC) 2008396180 (OCoLC)173239380 |
| ISBN |
9781443809191 (electronic book) |
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1443809195 (electronic book) |
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9781847183507 (hardcover) |
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1847183506 (hardcover) |
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